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The Flaming Lips will release a new EP on April 22 that features covers of Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head," Radiohead's "Knives Out" and Beck's "The Golden Age," as well as two new songs. The Flaming Lips will play May 3 at the Riviera Theatre.

How would you like to do the Roger Rabbit on stage with the Flaming Lips at their New Year's Eve show in Los Angeles? There's just one catch: You've got to prove you've got the moves. Fans (18 and over) must craft a dance audition tape and upload it to youtube.com/group/flaminglips, making sure to tag it with Flaming Lips NYE Dance Contest. Then visit flaminglips.com and fill out an entry form for your chance at the grand prize. The winner gets two tickets to the Flaming Lips and Gnarls Barkley show Dec. 31 and a spot on stage to dance with the Lips.

Red Hot Chili Peppers and Sonic Youth are leading the charge of veteran bands at this year's Lollapalooza. Here's a look at some of the other seasoned acts on the bill. The Flaming Lips Sleater-Kinney Violent Femmes Blues Traveler Poi Dog Pondering Rev. Horton Heat Wilco Queens of the Stone Age Umphrey's McGee Smoking Popes

The Flaming Lips, Steve Winwood, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, and Hot Tuna will be at Bonnaroo NE. They join the Dead, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan for the Aug. 8-10 fest in Riverhead, N.Y. Visit www.bonnaroo.com.

Jay-Z has a date in the Volunteer State in June. The "Empire State" hitmaker will headline the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. Other acts at the Tennessee fest include Kid Cudi, Weezer, Flaming Lips, Black Keys and Kings of Leon.

The Flaming Lips Fight Test In some ways, the Flaming Lips' seven-song EP "Fight Test" is the most accessible thing the band has ever done. Often it's a futile task attempting to decipher just where the punch line is--if there even is one--in Lips' tunes, but there's no mistaking the laugh factor on "Fight Test." Though the group keeps it real on covers of Beck's "The Golden Age" and Radiohead's "Knives Out," it massacres Kylie Minogue's dance hit "Can't Get You Out of My Head" with stripped-to-the-bone, sardonic interpretation.

The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival lifted the curtain Tuesday on the lineup of acts for its annual artsy get-together in Manchester, Tenn. This year's fest, set for June 10-13, features headliners Jay-Z, Weezer and The Flaming Lips. How does it stack up against two other recently announced music lineups -- the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., and the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago? Top-billed headliner Bonnaroo: Jay-Z Coachella: Jay-Z Pitchfork: Pavement Edge: Bonnaroo and Coachella Headliner gimmick Bonnaroo: Flaming Lips to perform Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" with Stardeath and White Dwarfs Coachella: Faith No More reunites a year after frontman Mike Patton performed at the fest solo with a beatboxer Pitchfork: Pavement reunion Edge: Bonnaroo Indie darlings Bonnaroo: Japandroids, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, Wale, many others Coachella: Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer, Camera Obscura, Wale, some others Pitchfork: The entire lineup Edge: Pitchfork